Posted: 12/01/2010
Cross Purposes - powerful images of the crucifixion - Spring 2010
Powerful images of the crucifixion by 22 of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st century go on display at Mascalls Gallery, Paddock
Wood this spring.
Cross Purposes; shock and contemplation in images of the crucifixion includes, for the first time in the UK, drawings by
Marc Chagall for his stained glass windows at Tudeley Church.
“This is a powerful collection of images ... from the point of view of every variety of belief, doubt or unbelief: a deeply moving and questioning exhibition.” Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.
“The Crucifixion is one of the great religious themes in Western art, one that has tried and tested the genius of many an Old Master.” Andrew Lambirth, The Spectator Art Critic
.
“This is one of the most remarkable exhibition of paintings on a religious theme for many years and it deserves to be widely recognised as such.”
Richard Harries, Lord Harries of Pentregarth.
From Stanley Spencer to Tracey Emin, Duncan Grant to Eric Gill, Maggi Hambling to Emmanuel Levy, Cross Purposes investigates how the symbol of the crucifixion is used to explore issues far wider than the biblical story. The crucifixion is used by many artists – religious or otherwise – as an archetype through which to explore issues of a social or personal nature. Maggi Hambling has painted a crucifixion image, in memory of her mother, every Good Friday since 1986, Indian artist F N Souza uses the crucifixion to express the suffering of a Bombay city dweller and, in a photograph of a bombed statue of the crucifixion, Lee Miller creates a symbol for WWII. Three miles away from Mascalls Gallery is All Saints’ Church, Tudeley which is the only church in the world to have all the windows decorated by Marc Chagall. The East window at Tudeley depicts Christ crucified over the figure of a young girl drowning; it is a memorial to Sarah d’Avigdor-Goldsmid who died in 1963 at the age of 21. As part of Cross Purposes, the drawings showing the evolution of Chagall’s ideas will be coming to the UK for the first time and they show that the windows of Tudeley Church could have looked very different!
Cross Purposes is curated by Nathaniel Hepburn
Mascalls Gallery, Paddock Wood, West Kent: 5 March – 29 May 2010
touring to Ben Uri, The London Jewish Museum of Art: 15 June – 19 September 2010
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